Import timeout(1) from FreeBSD

["Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

Hello,
 
The FreeBSD team produced BSD-licensed timeout(1).
 
Sources http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=268745
Production https://phabric.freebsd.org/D377
 
Is it a good idea to import their result into our base trees?
This tool will make my life easier, my use case is doing tests of a certain 
executable, grab results logs from a certain time (like 1-60 sec) and then 
repeat N times. I was using subshells, transfering PID and then using the 
kill(1) command.
 
Some utilities contain a timeout option, but it won't necessarily help if a 
process hangs.

My goal is not to find a walk-around using chain of existing tools (so 
increasing burden in shell scripts), but make life easier taking this 
specialized tool.
 
With regards.